4: Franklin College became the first college in Indiana to admit women in 1842.
8: Virginia Baptists met with President Washington to press for guarantees of religious liberty in 1789.
10: Annie J. Ward received the first ‘four-year’ diploma from Chowan College in North Carolina in 1853.
12: James Ware and James Pittman were tried in Caroline County, VA, for having preaching in their homes in 1772.
17: Pensylvania’s Northumberland Baptist Association took a strong stand against slavery in 1855.
22: Nathaniel Saunders was summoned to appear in court in Culpepper county, VA, for preaching in 1772.
24: William Jewell college, the first four-year college west of Mississippi River, was charted in Liberty MO, in 1849.
26: Four Baptist ministers were tried in Middlesex County, VA, for preaching outside the state church in 1771.
Drawing of Franklin College from Cathcart’s Baptist Encyclopedia.
